Quilt Otaku

Ok, no more teasing. Here's the entire quilt. More notes on where I got patterns, how I did construction...coming soon. My mom says she...

So a couple more details, you know I cannot resist keeping you in suspense of seeing the entire quilt. The quilt is completely done with Jap...

Today is a special birthday for my Mom. For her gift this year, my sister and I did a colaborative quilt project for her which we started ma...

As a very special treat, our family went to Disneyland yesterday. Even though I grew up about a 20 min drive from here, I had yet to appre...

The mysterious door below is from Purl Soho's shop in Orange County, Southern California. What a huge treat to visit there in person. T...

The above door is the entry to a VERY important place...to be named in my next post, oh such a happy place. When I was a kid, I visited Plym...

This little magnet by Piu Piu is so adorabe, I'm thinking it could even hold large pins as well as paperclips. I have it on my little se...

What cool comments on the last post, thanks everybody for your thoughts! I just got a package from a Japanese fabric seller listed on Etsy ....

My fabric collection is one of my most beloved tools. I put a lot of time and energy into finding just the right tones, textures and colors ...

I love my little Japanese quilting blog....however I occasionally wander off topic just a touch. Japanese style quilting does make me tick, ...

Keeping you waiting all weekend to find out about my new cool find at the quilt shop is a bit mean I know...sorry! Truth is, I had to be awa...

Today over lunch I made a mad dash out to Eddie's Quilting Bee as I was looking for some of Jeanna Kimball's needles . They didn...

Well, I ended up with a schedule conflict last night and moved my private knit lesson to Thursday, so stay tuned on that. Back at PIQF a few...

How pretty is this decanter...it was just sitting on my mom's kitchen counter when I visited her. I got an email from Moo. They have th...

Ok, so I got a bit of blue yarn as well. I made a little hat while we were driving up to San Francisco. You may recognize the bridge that ...

Ok, seriously, I am scared now. I just got the cutest yarn on earth from SuperBuzzy ...(imported from Japan of course) ...want to knit at ha...

Quilts Japan 119 (issue number 119 that is, November 2007) was just delivered to me, and is a very pretty and elegant issue. It is very focu...

Can you guess what our son is this year for Halloween? You know I love to make the costume myself, but at 11:30 pm last night I was wonderi...

As plate tectonics proved this evening, with a 5.6 earthquake (epicenter about 10 miles from our house!!) it may not be a great idea to sta...

Last weekend we drove down to LA for the wedding of an old and dear friend. Correction, I should say that my husband drove us down and back....